THE DAY OF PENTECOST
Acts 2:1: "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place."
This is the most important verse in the whole chapter. No one has any business teaching, preaching, or writing about anything in Acts chapter two until they have first given due consideration to the fact that the whole thing happens on “the day of Pentecost.” Pentecost is a Jewish feast day that comes fifty days after Passover every year (Hence: Pentecost, as in Pentagon, as in five, fifty, etc.) Pentecost was not the name of a denomination, nor was it “an experience,” as a deluded female Charismatic writer stated some years ago. For nearly 3,500 years, Pentecost has been an established feast day on the Jewish calendar. Being such, thousands of Jews had traveled to Jerusalem to keep the feast. God chose to use this gathering to get the gospel to them, including the ones of the dispersion that spoke different languages (vs. 5). Every person in the chapter is a Jew, and the miracle that happens is a sign to Jews (I Cor. 1:22), and nothing more. There are no gentiles in the chapter, and no one’s church is commissioned to be a “pentecostal” church.
"Melton"
Acts 2:1: "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place."
This is the most important verse in the whole chapter. No one has any business teaching, preaching, or writing about anything in Acts chapter two until they have first given due consideration to the fact that the whole thing happens on “the day of Pentecost.” Pentecost is a Jewish feast day that comes fifty days after Passover every year (Hence: Pentecost, as in Pentagon, as in five, fifty, etc.) Pentecost was not the name of a denomination, nor was it “an experience,” as a deluded female Charismatic writer stated some years ago. For nearly 3,500 years, Pentecost has been an established feast day on the Jewish calendar. Being such, thousands of Jews had traveled to Jerusalem to keep the feast. God chose to use this gathering to get the gospel to them, including the ones of the dispersion that spoke different languages (vs. 5). Every person in the chapter is a Jew, and the miracle that happens is a sign to Jews (I Cor. 1:22), and nothing more. There are no gentiles in the chapter, and no one’s church is commissioned to be a “pentecostal” church.
"Melton"